Patty Hearst

Patricia Campbell "Patty" Hearst (20 February 1954-) was an heiress to publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, her grandfather, who is best-known for being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army guerrilla organization and later being brainwashed into joining them for many robberies.

Biography
Patricia Campbell Hearst was born on 20 February 1954 in San Francisco, California, the granddaughter of the influential publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. She came from a wealthy family, and she attended the University of California, Berkeley. On 4 February 1974, the urban guerrilla Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped her from her college dorm in hopes of forcing her family to use its influence to free two imprisoned SLA murderers.

Her kidnapping gave publicity to the small SLA group, and SLA leader Donald DeFreeze talked about either killing her or letting her stay with the group. On 3 April 1974, she appeared in a video in which she proclaimed that her name was now "Tania" and that she had joined the SLA, either due to Stockholm syndrome, or due to her previous free-spirited nature and her consensual sexual relationships with some SLA members. On 15 April, she took part in the robbing of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco's Sunset District, and Attorney-General William B. Saxbe decided that she was a common criminal with no remorse for her actions. Hearst evaded police several times and appeared in propaganda videos, and she made two improvised explosive devices in attempts to kill policemen.

On 18 September 1975, Hearst and Wendy Yoshimura were arrested, and she was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. In November 1976, she was released on bail and protected by dozens of bodyguards hired by her father. On 20 January 2001, President Bill Clinton pardoned her on his last day in office, and she married her bodyguard Bernard Shaw. He died in 2013, and Hearst appeared in the media on a few occasions.